We just told you that Final Fantasy XI was getting some brand new content, but who wants to play an old game like that? Old games are so old. New games are where it's at. The problem is that you can't play a new Final Fantasy MMO at the moment. However, the wait appears to be very short as Square Enix has announced that the beta for Final Fantasy XIV will be launching on March 11.
The announcement was made at VanaFest 2010, which is sadly not a festival dedicated to Vana White, but one dedicated to Final Fantasy XI players. It's a closed beta available to a very limited number of invitees that were selected from the pool collected in December. It will be expanding, however, as the beta progresses. For now the beta is simply PC, but that will change as well at some point in the future.
Anyone know that they're in?
The breakdown of Final Fantasy XI's VanaFest 2010 announcements [Massively, via Joystiq, via 1Up]
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I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed for this one. I hope they change a lot of the XI stuff that was just a massive timesink. So many hours required to do ANYTHING.
Reduce reliance on parties, kthxbai.
i Came on a webcam.
Did you sign up during the December rounds of beta sign-ups, and if so, did SE select you because of links to the media in any way?
Just curious, as I hope my spring break to be FFXIV filled, lol.
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